For a Little Miss

A certain Little Miss had a birthday yesterday.

I won't see her until Sunday to give her this pressie, but I've checked with her mum to make sure that she doesn't accidentally see this post.

I made her a little satchel bag using my dragster fabric, with an adjustable strap so that it can grow with her.

Now I just need to wrap it up and decide which flavour cake to bake Sunday arvo!

...and on with the show

Courtesy: Tinniegirl

It's Monday again already, so it's time to get back into it.

Have you ever wondered where the magic happens? Well. there's something very exciting happening this Wednesday afternoon / evening, and it's the perfect opportunity to see behind the scenes.


Tinniegirl is hosting an Open Studio Event at her house, and I'm joining in with some of my Fringe Festival Exhibition pieces.

Down the Garden Path

Wednesday 8th December 2010

4 - 8.30pm

Thornbury 

 

I'll also have a little table of my crafty wares available for sale for those last minute christmas gifts.

Everyone is invited to come along - just send me an email if you're interested - mscurlypops (at) gmail (dot) com, and I can email you a full invitation with the address details.

On the blink

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It's been a veeeeery long (and somewhat stressful) week. My brain is fried. Back soon.

Off to Buninyong

The car is nearly packed, and it's all systems GO for tomorrow.

This is the final Buninyong Makers Market of the year. It's going to be a beautiful day so pop along for a visit, and pick yourself up some lovely handmade goodies!

There's also a raffle to win a hamper of handmade.

Buninyong Town Hall - 10AM to 2PM.

Happy Birthday Mr X

It was my eldest nephews birthday yesterday - 12 years have flown by so quickly, and he's so grown up and so tall these days!

We had a very yummy barbecue to celebrate lastnight. His mum made this yummy chocolate cake with cake pops on top. It was quite perfect because instead of the usual mad scramble to cut the cake, all the kiddies were given a cake pop and off they went... leaving an entire cake for the adults to eat. Much more civlised.

Mr X was lucky enough to receive an iPod Touch for his birthday, which made it very easy indeed for me to come up with a handmade pressie for him.

Oh, and as an added bonus, the headphone pocket on the back is perfect to pop in a little i-Tunes voucher. Fancy that!

My Creative Space - sort of...

It's taken a few weeks, but my new dining room is finally taking shape today.

The underlay has gone down....

....and the boards have been laid. Now there's just the trim, and I can move the furniture in!

Maybe I should organise a cuppa and a biccie for the guys after that, so they can then get busy with my craft space (which is far more exciting than the dining room).

The home of My Creative Space

Artist in Training

Nikki's Wee Girl had a birthday a couple of weeks ago, and I gave her one of my snail cards with her pressie.

Then I received a lovely suprise thankyou card and drawing when I arrived yesterday. She's worked really hard at getting the details exactly the same with all the colours and stripes.

Definitely one of the arty-farty-designer-types of the future!

Off to the Gong

I sent a package of goodies off to Milk Thieves Art & Design last last week....

So if you're out and about in Wollongong, pop in for a visit.
You never know what crafty things you may find!

The travelling adventures of Flat Ted

 The view from the gold mining monument in Clunes

A little visitor arrived in my mailbox last week. I think his real name is Travelling Teddy Bear, but I like to call him Flat Ted.

Flat Ted originated in a primary school class in the US, but he's been having some wonderful adventures all over the world, and sending postcards back home.

So after visiting Disneyland in Paris on his most recent worldwide adventure.......

..... I took him to Clunes for the weekend!

Okay, so Widow Twankeys probably doesn't rate very highly when compared to Frontierland.

But, he did get to indulge in a little Devonshire Tea.

Flat Ted is heading off to visit a lovely family in the Land of the Long White Cloud this week.

Farewell Flat Ted, it was fun while it lasted!

Ominous

The view from my sisters balcony lastnight

So today consisted of rain, rain and yet more rain!

There were so many lovely things at the market today. It was very hard to resist....

Tinniegirl

I bought myself some pressies, and I did some christmas shopping and some christmas swapping (that's one of the perks of having a market stall at this time of the year).

Beccasauras

I'll show of my goodies later in the week.

Right now it's time for feet up and a cuppa!

On My Way

All the crafty goodies are packed and in the car, so now I just need to pack my suitcase and I'm off for a weekend in the country.

Hope to see you there!

* Oh, and I remembered to pack the allen key!

My Creative Space

I'm not creating anything today. I've just been doing a little test run on my handbag display for the market on Saturday.

My BIL made this hanging rack out of an old queen bed frame. I've only used it once, and it's been sitting in the garage ever since, so I thought it was high time to dust it off and make sure that I can still put it together.

Four screws and an allen key is all it takes (Note to self: DO NOT forget allen key).

Everything else is packed up into containers, ready to be stacked into the car Friday morning.

I've never been ready for a market this early before.... there's gotta be something wrong! What have I forgotten???

The home of My Creative Space

Fifteen Minute Refashion

I bought this tunic style dress a little while ago, but I've hardly worn it because it didn't really fit properly.

I have very narrow shoulders, so a dress with a very wide neckline wasn't the best choice. I was constantly dragging the shoulders back up after showing off my lovely bra straps!

It was such a hot day yesterday, that I thought it was high time that I fixed this one so that I could actually wear it (keep in mind that Dear Headless Dummy Frances is two sizes smaller than me and has harldy any boobage - hence the dress looks a bit tent-ish)

My solution was to first take to it with the rotary cutter and chop off the arms - no measuring required, I just folded it in half so that the arms were laying on top of each other, and guessed where to chop.

I had to actualy think about how to solve the shoulder issue as I certainly didn't want to go to the trouble of unpicking the sleeves from the body.

I ended up putting this little dart in the centre back of the dress, which has worked perfectly.

Unfortunately, none of this has fixed the issue of this dress not really being suitable for my skin tone. I think I'll be calling on the services of my dyeing buddy to turn this colour from drab to fab!

Eye Candy

In the absence of anything interesting to say, I hereby present some eye candy for your viewing pleasure.

Just talk amongst yourselves, and carry on then.....

New Colours

I finally managed to whip up some iPhone / Gadget Pouches in my new colours on the weekend.

They'll be coming along to the Daylesford Makers Market this weekend, but if you can't make it on Saturday, then pop on over to the CurlyPops Shop instead.

I'm off to enjoy this beautiful Melbourne sunshine!

A pressie just for me...

A friend and his daughter came over to visit yesterday to help install my ceiling fans before summer really hits!

So while he was banging and crashing around up in the ceiling, we decided to have a little impromptu sewing session.

To begin with, we worked together to make a little pencilcase for her (which I didn't think to photograph).... and then I left her to it, and she went through my scraps container, and whipped up a little zippered purse just for me.

She made it all by herself. How cute!

One Week To Go

I'm so looking forward to next Saturday.

It feels like I haven't been to the Daylesford Makers Market for the longest time!
There'll be over fifty stalls filled to the brim with crafty goodness.

Why not take a day trip and come and visit.

In need of some colour?

I've been playing with linen tea towels again.

These ones were screaming out to be turned into something much more stylish than a cloth to dry dishes!

I can't seem to remember where these ones came from, but they're absolutely beautiful. (Edit: These were sent to me from the super talented Steph from Moo Bear - thankyou Steph!)
 It's one of those times when I'll take something to the market and secretly wish that no-one buys them.... just so I can keep them.
That's always my problem when I make 'one-offs'.

Photo courtesy of Becky Et Al

Just to prove that there are many more ways to use a tea towel - you must pop on over to read this post at Becky Et Al

* Handbags will be available at the Daylesford Makers Market - Saturday 27th November

My Creative Space

A little stack of bits and bobs waiting to be sewn up into gadget pouches.

I think this bit is the most fun - cutting, fusing, stacking, counting - making sure that I have the right quantities of each cut piece all ready to stack up next to the sewing machine.

But, for today, the sewing has to wait.... I'm off to an appointment, and then popping over to to a girlfriends house to meet her brand new bubba (musn't forget to take his handmande bibs and blankie pressie with me).

I'll catch up on all the creative spaces (and the sewing) when I get back.

The home of My Creative Space

The Production Line

I'm trying to whip up a few more handbags this week (amongst other crafty things).

I've realised that when the builder returns next week to install the flooring in my new dining room, he's also going to be ripping up the carpet in my craft space, installing new wooden floors, and installing new wall mounted cabinets for me.

All this is good news..... except for the fact that I have to pack up and move everything out of my craft space, and then bring it all back and pack it all away again. I can't really envisage that there'll be any time at all for pre-market sewing next week, amongst every other activity that goes on in my life.

I'm just really looking forward to it all being finished!

Handbag on the left created using two lovely linen placemats that I received (quite a while ago) from Linda at Two Pink Possums.

Handbag on the right created using the same linen tablecloth from Monday..... and there's still more of it that I can use.